Video of the Day: YouTube Rewind 2016 Recaps the Viral Videos of Our Year
“Wow. What an awful year 2016 has been," says everyone always. Everyone except the celebrities, YouTube Stars, and living memes of YouTube’s 2016 Rewind.
This is a packed event filled with references to everything that happened this year, except the really, really bad stuff. Well, there's a reference to Bowie passing, but that's it. It's all good times from here on out. Let’s see what we’ve got here:
- The Rock
- The guy water bottle flipping guy
- PewDiePie
- Dude Perfect
- Something called “I Has Cupquake”
- The dude that does magic but covers his mouth electrical tape
- The starts of this thing that has over 2 million views
- Seth Meyers
- Daniel from Damn, Daniel
- Carpool Karaoke
- Colorful lighting
- Pokémon Go
- The Slow Mo Guys
- Flash Mobs
- MUCH, MUCH MORE
Look if your video went viral last year and you’re not in this thing, it’s time to get a new agent. Yeah, I’m talking to you, Misha. Where you at? 45-million views. WHERE YOU AT?
Like everything on YouTube, it’s a real mix of things that are annoying, entertaining, ridiculously cheery, and downright confusing. But that’s what the internet is about, and honestly, it’s better than the other half of the internet, which is startlingly depressing.